Roadmap · updated 2 October 2026
Three clocks, running at different speeds.
SwissMax and ChessZCam are both in active development: big steps forward in September, and ChessZCam Viewer Mode in the October trial builds. The zonChess portal is in construction. Three different products on three different timelines — so we show them separately.
The tournament day is covered. Launch is what remains.
Done5
Registration, pairing graphics, LAN scoring and Winner Studio
Data cleanup and Swiss-Manager export, 14 premium pairing templates, multi-phone LAN score collection, prize schemes and winner poster generation — all in active private-pilot use.
Estimated Ratings and combined Player Lookup
Preview a player's likely FIDE and MCF rating change before results go official, plus a single player card that cross-links both sources with per-time-control detail.
E-Certificate Studio, Regular Players library and the five-place podium
Layered certificate design with phone-captured signatures and 300-DPI batch export; a reusable player library shared across organizer profiles; and a 4–2–1–3–5 podium with chess-piece characters. See the changelog.
Refresh & Compare
Board-by-board comparison of a republished round — see the changed boards and the removed ones at a glance, instead of re-reading the whole sheet.
New workspace layout and a rebuilt E-Certificate Studio
Seven numbered areas with a live tournament/section/round bar; certificates designed directly on the page with 29 templates, 24 backgrounds, EN/BM/中文 wording and PNG/PDF export; project backups that include certificates. See the screens.
Now3
Early trial for the waitlist
Preparing the early trial build that everyone on the waitlist receives first, with installation notes and a simple way to send feedback.
Running real tournaments
Organizers are using the current build at live events across more halls and more network conditions. Their experience decides what moves up this list.
Launch readiness pack
After this round of feedback, we prepare commercial and delivery materials together with final release notes so checkout can open only when organisers are ready for dependable use.
Next & later4
Ratings beyond FIDE and MCF
SwissMax reads FIDE and MCF — Malaysia’s national list — because that is where it is built and tested. Support for other national federations, leagues and club rating lists is next, and we would rather build it with you than guess. Tell us which list you use.
Event archive and season view
Keep finished tournaments tidily archived on the organizer PC, so a club running a monthly series can look back across a whole season without hunting through folders.
One combined pre-publish check
A single “ready to publish” review before sharing or exporting, so the last verification is one action instead of four habits.
Public pricing and checkout
Trial activation, licensing and the buy flow, published once the terms are finalised. Nothing is on sale on this interim site. Join the waitlist — you will hear first.
Used on real broadcasts, and growing from there.
Done6
Phone detection with live PC overlay
Camera move detection, LAN hub, vMix/OBS browser overlay — tested at real venues through complete games.
A broadcast link built for a venue network
A paired link between phone and console, every move acknowledged before it leaves the phone, one clean resync after a Wi-Fi drop, Hold that keeps tracking underneath, and 12-hour broadcast state across a console restart.
Operator correction tools
Square-by-square differences, suggested legal sequences of up to four plies, a board you can tap, an ordered correction queue, and per-move timestamping against the video.
Analyze Video, review & repair, Stockfish
Adaptive scanning of recorded games, a review screen with video evidence beside every move, add/repair/rescan tools, analysis by part, and on-device Stockfish with move grades and accuracy. See the screens.
Rendered overlay video and ChessZCam Studio
MP4 with burned-in overlay, transparent WebM and PNG sequence, up to 4K; the Obsidian Glass HUD with seven finishes and premium 3D pieces; and the Windows Studio with webcam and capture-card input.
Redesigned live console and Overlay Designer
A Tally-style operator screen for vMix/OBS, a correction screen that blocks illegal positions, and an Overlay Designer with ten modules and saved presets — four styles in September, six in the October trial builds.
Now3
Viewer Mode — in trial builds
Parents and coaches outside the playing hall follow the live digital board on their own Android phone: two phones on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot, or through ChessZCam Live on a PC. Tested on real phones in both set-ups, and it runs smoothly. Next: a full tournament day, different venue networks and several viewers at once. How Viewer Mode works.
More venues, more boards, more phones
Every new hall teaches us something about lighting, framing and networks. The current build is being run through more of them, on more phone models and more board sets.
Release readiness
We are focusing on consistency, recovery behavior and operator comfort under live conditions before opening sales and publishing the final pricing flow.
Next & later3
Move validation alerts
A visible signal to the operator when the board shows something the game does not expect — information for the person running the broadcast, never a ruling at the board.
OBS presets and a simpler venue mode
One-click setup guides and an operator mode a club volunteer can run without a rehearsal.
Watching from further away
An idea only: following a board from outside the venue network, through an internet relay or a web viewer. No promise and no date. Today Viewer Mode works on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot only, in the Android app.
The part this interim site is standing in for.
Done0
Now1
Interim site
This site. Its only job is to keep product information accurate while the portal is built, without publishing commercial terms that are still under review.
Next & later3
Tournament discovery and player identity
Events with entry details and published pairings in one place, and one player identity where FIDE, MCF and zonChess figures stay clearly labelled and are never quietly blended into a single number.
Organizer publishing
Publish an event, take registrations, and hand a clean participant list straight into the SwissMax workflow — removing the spreadsheet round trip that starts every tournament.
Watch and archive
Featured boards from ChessZCam, live updates, and a game archive that grows from the tournaments people actually run.
Your friction is the roadmap
Tell us what breaks on your tournament day.
Feedback from organizers, arbiters, coaches and parents decides what moves up this list. It has already decided most of it.